• Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Experts said the Bush administration appeared to have recognized that it had tied its own hands by refusing to talk to Iran, Syria and North Korea.
• Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
The agenda of the talks, which will be held March 10 in Baghdad, will be how to rescue Iraq from a civil war.
• Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Officials knew that a suicide bomber was at large before an attack during the vice president?s trip to Afghanistan.
• Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Saliva from aquatic insects in areas where Buruli ulcer is endemic can protect mice against the disease's characteristic skin lesion and might play a role in natural immunity in humans.Citation: Marsollier L, Deniaux E, Brodin P, Marot A, Wondje CM, et al. (2007) Protection against Mycobacterium ulcerans lesion development by exposure to aquatic insect saliva. PLoS Med 4(2): e64. [click link for full article]
• Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Scientists have long known the molecular mechanisms behind most of the body's sensing capabilities. Vision, for example, is made possible in part by rhodopsin, a pigment molecule that is extremely sensitive to light. It is involved in turning photons into electrical signals that can be decoded by the brain into visual information. [click link for full article]
• Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Ali Mezar has spent his life fishing a narrow, muddy patch of the Nile in this, one of the most crowded cities in the world.
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• Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
A study led by Adnan Custovic from the University of Manchester analyzing two surveys ten years apart (1993 and 2003) among 9-16 yr old schoolchildren attending urban and rural schools in Ghana showed that the prevalence of both exercise-induced bronchospasm and atopy had approximately doubled over the period. [click link for full article]
• Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
These collaborations represent an ongoing strategic investment by the Commonwealth Government to ensure that Australians remain at the forefront of international advances in health and medical research, and help maintain our status as a world leader in this area. [click link for full article]
• Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
In 2005, PLoS Medicine published an essay by John Ioannidis, called "Why most published research findings are false," that has been downloaded over 100,000 times and that was called "an instant cult classic" in a Boston Globe op-ed of July 27 2006. This week, PLoS Medicine revisits the essay, publishing two articles by researchers that move the debate in two new directions. [click link for full article]
• Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Six projects will receive a total of $223,456 in 2007, with UQ researchers having received $800,000 in funding since 2002. The projects funded include a program led by Professor David Kavanagh from UQ's School of Medicine, who will examine ways to improve services for people with mental and substance use disorders. [click link for full article]
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